"I'm sure Samantha will accept that it's a silly thing to say but she's the sort of girl who might have thought it would make people laugh."
I cannot believe how mind-numbingly stupid people can be when it must be blantantly obvious to a Blackpool Beach hat wearing donkey this day and age is not the time to make comments like this.
Isn't it amazing when silly Brits do silly things abroad that the Foreign Office is meant to get involved and bail them out. Sometimes people should be made to face up to the stupidity of what they do and be prepared to face the consequences.
(P.S. I quite like Blackpool donkeys,having grown up there. There was an old grey one called Rommell which was particularly popular with the children).